CSUN United for Peace and Justice (CSUNUPJ) is a working group dedicated to the creation of a center for studies of peace and justice at California State University, Northridge. The coalition includes more than 90 faculty members, students, and members of the campus community at CSUN. The central mission of CSUNUPJ is to facilitate discourse and analysis of social policies likely to result in peaceful and just forms of human co-existence. CSUNUPJ provides interdisciplinary resources for research and teaching of topics connected with racism; gender and sexual discrimination; anti-immigrant bias; class; and current events, including analyses of social conditions leading to war and other forms of collective violence. CSUN United for Peace and Justice welcomes interaction with other academic departments and organizations at California State University, Northridge and beyond.